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The graphic below shows (1) intervals for institutions that have sent participants
to more than one DMAC Institute
and (2) spans for institutions that have sent more than one participant to the DMAC
Institute (respectively: 25% and 35% of total participating institutions). If an institution
sent
participants to more than one DMAC Institute, it sent them with an average interval
of 2.16 years if Ohio State's numbers are excluded from the data.
Institutions that sent participants to two DMAC Institutes did so with an average
interval of 3.11 years, and institutions that sent participants to three
DMAC Institutes did so with an average interval of 2.53 years. If an institution sent
a total of two participants to DMAC, they attended over an average span of
2.45 years, or one person every 1.23 years. If
an institution sent a total of three participants to DMAC, they attended over an average
span of 5.1 years, or one person every 1.7 years. The average spans
account for cases in which multiple participants from the same institution attended
DMAC at the same time.
Not enough institutions have sent participants to more than
three DMAC Institutes, nor have enough institutions sent more than three participants
to DMAC, to constitute a meaningful data set in either case.
Overall, these numbers indicate a mild rotation even among the participating institutions
most familiar to DMAC, perhaps indicating both the limitations of
institutional resources and the pace at which word of DMAC (and its benefits) spreads
within a department, college, or institution. The latter resonates with
the pace of the academic calendar, especially considering that projects or curricula
developed out of DMAC typically take at least one or two terms to come to fruition.